frieze

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In 2019 the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine honored Ball by placing her name in the frieze of its main building.

From New York Times

When New Hope’s congregation left in 1997 for a larger space in Maryland, the frieze stayed behind.

From Washington Post

With its tall ceiling, round arches, chandeliers and decorated friezes, plus its famed white glazed terra-cotta facade adorned with festoons, cornices and Corinthian keystones, the building certainly has the pomp of a grand museum.

From Seattle Times

Much of the frieze and the temple’s other sculptural decoration were lost in a 17th-century bombardment, and about half the remaining works were removed in the early 19th century by a British diplomat, Lord Elgin.

From Seattle Times

The antiquities, also known as the Elgin Marbles, mostly consist of the remnants of a frieze that ran around the outer walls of the Parthenon temple on the Acropolis in Athens.

From Seattle Times